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[shadowkat]

1. I think I have a cold. Either that or my allergies have gotten carried away. Been sniffling and sneezing all day long, yet, oddly less so outside. You'd think with all the flowering trees it would be the opposite.

The day? Beautiful. Too beautiful for a windowless cubicle. Although do have a nice picture of sail-boat on the ocean in Hilton Head at sunset. If you don't have windows? Make your own.
Also took a nice stroll around the park - it was the sort of day in which the colors are so pitch perfect and bright that you aren't quite sure it's real. Like wandering around in a 3 D photograph - where someone has brightened all the colors using photo-shop.

2. A friend pointed this out to me today regarding Once Upon a Time -

"Isn't it interesting that the only sexy characters in this show are the villains? They are the one's wearing the sexy and tight clothing, have the great hairstyles, and makeup. While everyone else is dressed normally."

My response? I thought, wait...this is true of all (okay maybe not all, most or many) sci-fi fantasy tv shows. [ETA: Too many darn fact-checkers on lj, you can't get away with any sort of hyperbole whatsoever. **grins**] Particularly American ones. Excluding Farscape - which wasn't exactly American and is the exception. Vampire Diaries? Villains wear the sexy clothes and are the sex symbols. Buffy? Ditto. (Spike vs. Riley, Faith vs. Buffy, VampWillow vs. Willow..heck, VampXander vs. Xander.) Supernatural? Ditto. [ETA: Admittedly my memory of it is vague and have not been watching lately. But it seemed to be the case. Again wardrobe folks.] Angel? Ditto (compare Illyria to Fred...I rest my case.)

We really do have hang-ups about sex, don't we?

Friend: And this show (meaning Once Upon A Time) really underlines that.

Comments

[liliaeth]

And then there's soulless Angel with the leather pants of evil ;-)

Not saying that BTVS didn't go for the 'evil is sexy' angle, just that personally I didn't like the look of Willow in that leather outfit and bustier (or however you spell that).

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

Hee well fair enough :) Thinking about it I suppose they did give vampire Willow a creepy childlike sexuality rather than outright sexy.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Yet her other clothing was clearly that much sexier? Come on she was dressed either like a dweeb or an absurd peasant woman who spent a lot of time at Renaissance festivals. Fans stated back in the day that the wardrobe department did not like Willow.

[liliaeth]

Not saying she looked 'sexier' in it, just that she looked better in it. And I'm saying that as someone who can't stand the character. The socalled 'sexy' look was too forced, too fake. it made her look terrible.